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EJcuoicb to Jpolitirs, Citcraturc, gricnltuvc, Science, illoralitn, anb cncral Sntelligcuce.
VOL. 29.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 11, 1872.
NO. 37.
Published by Theodore Schocli.
Tpf s -Two dollars a yearin advance and if not
' j'befnrc the en of the year, two dollars and fifty
nis wUhe charped.
. iiij);r.Iisi-'i!nued iinlil all arrearages are paid,
.xce(,t .'it the o.-.tion ot the Etlitor.
ir7 Vlvertiseinents of one square of (eight line?) or
iris or three insertions SI M. Each adttitioiiiil
eViii mi, 5!l cents. Longer ones in proportion.
J OB I" U I STING,
OF AU KINDS,
f'tccutcJ in the hiahest style of the Art, and on the
most reasonable terms.
DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
ha his "fTiee on Main Street, in the second
lf,rv of )r. S. Walton V Srick fonildinj, nearly uppo
n!c U Slrouilsltiutj louc, and Ue flatters himself
th-I h'v ciyftccn vcais constant practice and the most
c-irnet and careful attenti.-n to all matters pertaining
i,', his profession, that lie is fully able to erf.rm aii
iicritions in the dental line in the mo?t careful, taut e
t,. Mild skillful manner.
Siii-cial iittcnlion given to saving the Natural Teeth ;
nl. to the insertion of Artificial Tcelh un Kuiibcr,
C.'lil", Silver or Continuous Gums, and pcrlect fits in
ll r;i-e insured.
M.'st persons know the great folly and danger ot cn
lriiMiS their work to the inexperienced, or to those
lirnm at a distance. April 13, ISTI. ly
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces tint having just returned from
Denial Colh'gs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the most in proved method.
Teeth extracted without pain, when de
ircJ hv the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. AH work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
ing, Main S'reet, Stroudsburg, Pa.
ujr 31-tf
DR. C. O. IIOFFJI.IX, 31. I.
Would respectfully announce to the
public that lie has removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice of Medicine and Surgery will he a
sufficient suaranteeforthe public confidence.
February:.';, 1S7. tf.
J-ijies u. valto.,
Attorney at law,
Office in the building formerly occupied,
ly L. M. Burson, and opposite the Strouds
burg Bank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
jan l.i-tf
S HOLMES, Jr.
. Attorn cy at Law,
STROUD SBUR G, PA.
Office, on Main Street, 5 doors above the
Siroudsbur House, and opposite Rustcr's
clothing; store.
07-Busincss of all kinds attended to with
promptness and fidelity.
May 0, 1SG9. tf.
PLASTER !
Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER,
it Stokes' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS.
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING, and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand.
Will exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or pay the highest market price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by
C. Stone, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. S. WYCKOFF.
Stokes' Mills, Pa., April 20, 1871.
A.
BOCK A FELLOW,
DEALER IX
Ready-Hade Clothing, Gents Fur
nishing Goods, Hats & Caps,
Boots & Shoes, &c.
EAST STROUDSUURG, PA.
(Near the Depot.)
The public are invited to call and exam-
sooda. Prices moderate.
May G, 16G9. tf.
UEV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
hatrHrurgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully corn
founded et
HOLLINSEEAD'S DKUG STORE.
CT" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 18G7. W. 1 1 0 LLINS II E A D.
A FULL ASSORTMENT
1L OF
home made chairs
Always on hand at
SAMUEL S. LEE'S
New Cabinet Shop,
Franklin Street Stroudsburg, Penn'a
In rear of Stroudsburg Bank.
April 6, '71. ly.
DO.VT FOSIGET llial when
you want any thing in the Furniture
4)T OrnrtrttAnlM I 1 n a I Lot If n rtir I r I ho
Odd-Fellows' Hull, Main Street, Htroud-
0U'J, l'a., is the place to get it. Sept. 20
I O.VT rOOL YOUIt MONBY
U away for worthless articles of Furni
lure, but go to McCarty's, and yoj will gel
en paid for it. ISepl. 2C, '07.
I 0'T yon know tliut J. II.
McCarty is the only Undertaker in
Slroudcburr who understands his business!
If not, attend a Funeral managed by any
other Undertaker 111 town, and yon will see
the proof of the fact. Sept. J 0, 'U7.
HAVE YOU MADE YOUR WILL ?
BY A LAWYER OF LOXQ EXPERIENCE
Kcadcr, if yoa have any property, as
there is a fair presumption in a country
like this that you have, it is unJoubtedly
a question of interest to you what shall
be done with it when you are gone
You must go at some time, and may go
very suddenly. At any rate, you will
probably not live nearly as long as jou
expect to. If you die without a will, the
law will do the best it can in making a
ju.t disposition of your property among
your relatives. Perhaps you are satisfied
to let the law do this for you. If so, very
well lut it is altogether probable that
you have some preference as to the dis
position of your property. You may wish
to bestow some of it in charity. This the
law will not do for jtou. You must see
to it for yourself, or else let it go undone;
and, in letting it go undone, you may be
letting a very clear duty go undone.
You may have some child that is feeble
in body or mind, or that has had special
misfortune and needs special considera
tion. It is for you alone to consider this
child. The law kuows nothing about its
special wants and cannot provide for them.
You may have no children, and may have
quite a choice which among your nephews
and nieces shall take ycur property. If
50, you must see to it. The law will not
select for you. The rich and the poor,
the deserving and the underserving, will
all take alike. You may have an adopted
daughter whom you have accustomed to
comforts and perhaps luxuries, who will
be left penniless unless you provide for
her. You must remember her, and not
trust to the law to do it. And you may
with a sense of justice, lecognise the
right of your good wife to a more ample
allowauce for her comfort than the law
would give her. If so, it is for you to
think of her and provide for her. The
law docs not know what a remarkably
good wife she is, and what a special claim
she has upon yon, and gives her only her
fixed and too limited portion, dividing the
rest, if you have no children, among col
lateral relatives, some of whom perhaps
you never saw. Consider well, then,
whether it is not a clear duty to those
whom you love, or to some good objects
that you might aid, for you to make a
will.
And now, in the second place, if you
have made by your mind that you ought
to make a will, let me say to you most
emphatically, Make it Now. You don't
known how soon you will die. Your on
ly sure way is to attend to the matter at
once. If you put it off from day to day
you will probably never make one. The
fact that so many wills arc made by men
on their death-beds shows how olten per
sons who intended to make a will, and
would be very sorry to die without one,
neglect it till they find themselves just
about to die. Now, let me give you three
reasons against postponing the making of
your will till you are latally sick, cither
of which is reason enough of itself: 1.
You may never have any such sickness
You may drop down dead, or be killed in
a railroad accident, or be burned up, or
be blown up, or drowned. 2. If you have
a leisurely death bed time of it, your mind
will be enfeebled; things that you could
easily have settled by a little thought
when you were well, will trouble ana per
plex you, and you will very likely decide
them unwisely and wrongly. '6. Your
will thus made may be contested, and will
rcallv invite parties adversely interested
to contest it, on the ground of your feeble
condition, of which evidence can be easily
obtained ; and, as a result your will is
either set aside, aud all your plans de
feated, or if it is sustained, half your pro
perty may be spent in litigation and a
life long family quarrel engendered.
And now. m the third place, ll you are
so thoughtful and prudent as to have made
a will another most important matter is to
be considered. Lo you keep your will
revised and adapted to new circumstances?
Has your property doubled since the will
was made ? Then probably you want to
give more to your wife, more to A, more
to JJ. rooro 10 me ojuiu. vvuoiuci
' m 1 1
Have you given to one 01 your cnnuren a
piece of real estate as his fair share of
vour property and have you since sold
that real estate so mat cnua win gei Dom
ing uolees your will is changed ? Look
well to this. The writer, who has had
long experience as a lawyer, can recall
manir cases where most unfortunate re
suits have followed from the neglect to
keep a will in order. Lverybody has
-. . . t "II A 4V
heard of the Washburn win case, ivuer
the will was made by wbicli Mr. W., had
made ample provision for his cherished
wife in certain valuable 6tock, the stock
was so changed iu form as not to answer
the description of the will, and a long
still pending controversy has grown out
of it.
And now, a ike fourth place, let nic
saY a word to von about what provision
vnu should make for vour wife. The
laws of the different States very some
what, but as u general rule, give a window
a life use of one-third of the land owned
bv the husband, and an absolute right to
one-third of the personal property left af
ter the payment of debts. This rule, un
der the impression that it is a just oue,
has very frequently been adopted by hus
bands iu their bequests to their wives.
"I give to my faithful aud beloved wife
her thirds" finds its way, or did so a few
years ago, into half the wills. Now this
not enough. Unless there are good re.i-
! sons to the contrary, the wife should have
substantially all the property, so long as
she lives. There is generally no reason,
if the property is sufficient, why the fami
ly should not be kept up by the wife af
ter the husband's death just as it was be
fore ; and the husband should leave her,
if he can, the same means to keep house
and be hospitable aud charitable that he
enjoyed and that she was accustomed to
share. If you give the property, and the
whole of it, absolutely to your wife, it will
in many cases be the best thing you can
do. Your children arc hers, and she will
be just as much interested in providing
for them as you can be ; and if she should
survive you for ten or twenty years, she
will be far better able to judge what is
then best than you can now. Circum
stances may have greatly changed, and if
you have found her wise and trustworthy
through all your married life, you may
trust her to act wisely with reference to
such changes. There may . be peculiar
and exceptional cases. Your wife may
be a second wife and not the mother of
your children, or yon may have good rea
son for not trustiog her judgment. You
must decide upon such cases for yourself,
only remember that such cases make it
the more important that you should not
die without a will.
And while 1 am talking about wives I
wish to remind them that if they have
property of their own it is as important
that they make wills as their husbands do
so. Where a wife has property it gen
erally comes to her by inheritance, aBd it
may be presumed that her brothers and
sisters have property also. If she has no
children she would naturally prefer that
it should go to her husband. To accom
plish this she must make a will.
And let me say that for cither to make
it a condition of a bequest that the other
shall forever remain a widow or a widow
er, seems to me selfish and harsh. It may
be for the best happiness of either survi
vor, in later years, to marry again, and
it ought to be left to the free exercise of
the judgment of such survivor in view of
the facts as they may arise.
Aod now let nic say to you lastly,
though the matter is not last in import
ance, do not attempt to make or revise
your own will, but go to a good lawyer.
The writer gives this advice against the
interest of his profession. Nothing is
more fruitful ol litigation and lawyers'
fees than badly-drawn wills. The learn
ing pertaining to wills is recondite and
complicated, and no man who is not a law
yer can hope to understand it. A good
fee paid for a well-drawn will is the best
of economy.
Let me sum up the whole matter in a
few words :
1. Consider whether you will make a
will or die without one.
2. If you think it best to make one,
attend to the matter at once.
3. If you have already made a will, see
that it is keept in repair.
4. See that vour wife is made sure of
all she needs, if there is property enough.
5. And go to a good lawyer to have
your will drawn.
An Eastern Love Story.
Kusa -Jatakava. a Buddhistic legend,
has been rendered for the first time into
English verse, from the Sinhales, by
Thomas Steele, of the Ceylon Civil Ser
vice, and published in London by Trub
ner & Co. It is the story of an Indian
Prince, son of the greatest sovereign of
Dambadiva (India), who is gifted with
every intellectual and moral quality, but
ill favored in his personal appearance,
asks in marriage a princess of great
beauty, and has her brought in pomp to
the court of the king, his father. As
soon as the lovely Prabavati has seen
her bridegroom, Prince Kusa, in broad
day light, she takes to flight and returns
to her lather s house. Kusa iouows ner,
and after practising various trades in the
town where her lather reigns, euds by
obtaining access to the palace, where, as
a cook, he distinguished himself by his
uncommon talent. But neither his culi
nary skill.nor his lamentatious move the
heart of Prabavati ; and, being insult
ingly rejected, he is induced to return
to his native town. Immediately after
hia dpnarture. seven kings arrive, each
at the head of an army, to demand the
hand of Prabavati. The father of the
nrincess is much embarrassed ; if he be
stows his daughter upon one of the seven.
the other six will unite againsi mm in a
war W hich may ruin his country. In
this dilemma, the king, touched with
compassion, for his people, decides that
his daughter shall be cut into seven
niAPfid. and the portions carefully equal-
hnt th Rpven suitors may be
satisfied, and no one made jealous.
The prospect of this sevenfold marriage
causes Prabavati to reflect ; the begins
in. ,.nneiW that Prince Kusa, whom she
so arrogantly rejected, is certainly not
handsome, nut iuu 01 ujiv;i..-uv.c,
cooetancy, and love ; that he is the son
of the most poweriui iuj;t u
head of the most brilliant court to be
found; she declares herself therefore
ready to accept hiui as her spouse. Kusa
has iu the meantime reiurueu ; yy ms
superior talents, without shedding of
blood, ho defeats and takes prisoners
the seven kingly suitors; and as his
clemency equals his bravery, and Pra
bavati fortunately has seven sisters, he
gives one in marriage to each of the
conquered kings. As for himself, his
ugliness is suddenly transformed into
beauty, he is iiianied to Prabavati, "aud
they both live ha py over afterwards."
Charity's Home, and How it was Paid
For.
When I came to New York, a few
years ago, my wife said to me ono morn
ing
"Israel, we must have a homo of our
own."
Said I : "Charity, it's just impossible,
we hain't the means."
Said I: "Isreal, wo hain't the means
to pay the rent these people charge, that's
clear."
She began washing up the breakfast
things, and off I want to duty.
In the evening Charity said to me, as
we sat down
Vnnnl f ' "
to supper : 4,Isreal, I ve
I sprang up from my
chair and said
"You've I 'ought what?"
A lot," said she.
"A lot ?" said I."
"A lot," said she.
"Well !" said I, and I sat down again
and went for the tea and biscuit. When
I came to, I said to my wife : "Just ex
plain yourself, Charity."
"I ve bought a lot, said she. "Mr.
Dodd says the fifty dollars down are satis
factory, and the rest may run at six per
cent. Twenty feet front, one hundred
feet deep two thousand feet at ten
cents a foot, two hundred dollars. Fifty
paid, one hundred and fifty due."
"But Chanty, how about a house 7
"All right, Israel. I've made a con
tract with Chipps & Culhngs; house,
shed aod fence, tile en hundred and fifty."
"Charity, are you
' Deranged, eh ? No, love, not a bit.
One hundred dollars cash when posses
sion is kivc
"But, Charity"
Stop a minute. You know, Israel,
we can never get our large Dureau nor
our large sofa, nor our high post bed
stead, nor our large dining table, nor our
large secretary nor our large wardrobe
into this little four room house. That's
clear, isn't it V
"Well?"
"Well, then, we'll sell them all, and
the proceeds will meet these two cash
payments?"
"Lxactly, with a little difference, may
be. So you Eee."
"But how can we do without these
things V
"As easy as you will do without ci
gars; as easy you will be your own
barber and bootblack ; as easy as we'll
both take our-breakfast without half dol
lar LuUer ; as I'll make all winter clothes
carry me through next winter; as easy
as I'll carry you through, nice and gen
teel, on the same principle ; as easy as "
"Charity !,'
"Well ?"
"As easy as I'll do without a 'nooncr
and a 'night cap,' and my cigars, and
theatre tickets, and "
"Exactly, old glow-worm !"
"Well well. Suppose we should do
without these things, aod I should be
away before it is paid ; 'where would our
own my Charity's home be then ?"
"Oh, you can get your life insured,
and make that all safe."
"Darling, here's with you !"
I never saw debts squared off so soon.
Two hundred and fifteen hundred, made
seventeen ; and one hundred and fifty,
cash off, paid by proceeds of surplus fur
niture, leaves fifteen hundred and fifty.
Fifty dollars a month pays this off in
no, not in thiry-onc months, because the
interest and insurance payments put it off
somewhat, and the taxes and a couple of
omissions kept it running longer, say for
three vears : and then we had a home of
our own, every foot of it worth fifty
cents, making a clear gam 01
dred dollars : and we were
eight hun-
"Stop, husband, let me tell it. We
have a home a sweet delightful home
and I have a husband who never know
that hi3 soul debasing indigencies had
brought him down so far as that none
but his own wife denied his fallen state,
or hoped to lift him up again. We havo
three dear children, of whom wo are
proud ; and "
"Charity ?"
"What, love !"
"I have just been thinking that if "
"Nothing more is needed, Israel.
"Let me say it out, Charity. If you
were onhi single, how Id like to court
you over again."
"Not for long, old Kubicand ! for I'd
droD plump into vour arms at the first
time of asking." And Charity suited
the action to the word.
"Its oil. no doobt very naturaly for
young men to love the girls," said Israel,
"but no girl was ever half so lovable to
me as this dear wife, who has given more
then half the years of her life to making
me harpy, tud leading mo out of the
wavs of follv and of sin, and our darling
babies are all like unto hcf."
And Charity broke in with an Amen
n rnmhatic. that little Abe Lincoln
shouted from his high armed chair
"This meetiug arc dismissed !"
A good utory is told of an engineer who
runs a loeniotive on the cstern Division
of the brie Hallway. iiic road runs
through an Indian Reservation in Cat
tarau?us Co.. and the uafives are often
( .
seen at the stations through that section
One day snuaw holding a papoose in her
arms was standing on the steps at Sula
manca, as the engineer was drawing his
train ur 10 the station, lie observing
her, called out : "Hello, have you got
little Injun there?" "No," said the, "it'
half injun and half injuuecr !'
CROPS AND TARIFFS.
The wool crop of the United States for
the year ending June 1st, 1871, is esti
mated at 101,284,076 pounds, for which
the growers have probably realized about
$45,000,000. The cotton crop for the
same year was about 3,000,000 bales of
450 pounds each, of 1,350,000,000 pouuds,
yielding to the growers upwards of 200,
000,000: These two items, of agricutural pro
duce look large, and the public is accus
tomed to regard them as of especial na
tional significance, and they arc of great
intrinsic importance, but not entitled at
all to the pre eminence which they oc
cupy in the popular estimation. Tho
pre-eminence is doubtless owing to tho
fact that they enter largely into the tables
of export and import, whereas many
staple articles of produce consumed chiefly
at home are of more aggregate value than
the cotton or wool of tho country. .We
hope to be able, from tho forthcoming
statistics of the late census, to show the
national production of corn, potatoes grass,
wheat and other graius, and of horses, cat
tle, sheep, swine, &c., of which scarcely
any is exported, because the home mark
et is the best. We have no doubt it will
appear, when these statistics are publish
ed, that the great value of the cotton crop
is exceeded by that of corn, wheat, pota
toes, or the grasses; and the farmer who
will study the facts cannot fail to realize
how vastly more important the home
market is to him, than the foreign, and
how surely the prosperity now enjoyed
by the farming interests, would bo brought
to an end if Congress shall fail to extend
a fostering protection to the great manu
facturing interests of the country. The
farmer, more than any other class, should,
for his own best interests, insist on such
a tariff on imports as will sustain and en
courage our manufacturing industries, be
cause in them lies his only security for
remunerative prices for his surplus crops.
f Congress should so reduce the tarwi as
to stop auy considerable portion ot our
factories aud throw their many thousand
lands out of employment, these hands
would be forced to fall back upon the soil
for a subsistence, and so, instead of being
the best customers of the farmer, would
become his competitors and rivals, and
the products of tho farm, deprived of the
home market and driven to depend on tnc
tender mercies of the markets of Europe,
would be reduced in value to the wretch
edly low prices that prevailed before the
policy of protective tariffs was inaugural
ed in this country, when what sold for 37
to 50 cents per bushel and other produce
proportionately low. We remember when
before the tariff of 182a was enacted we
were a lad in a village store and exchang
ed a yard of brown sheetings for a bushel
of wheat, or four bushels of oats, or five
pounds of butter. Whereas, now, under
the policy of protection, the scale is com
pletely reversed, the busnei or wneat win,
to-day, pay for ten yards of the same j
quality of muslin, the bushel of oats for
three yards, the pound cl butter lor three
yards, &c. This practical illustration,
which is but one 01 scores that might be
ed, ought to determine every far-
1 t . 1.
mer, and inoeed every citizen wu cans
for the welfare of his country, to raise
his voice and use his franchise to put
down the free trade faction, who with
English money, and in the interests of
English factories and importing houses
iu New York, would if they could, de
stroy our infant and growing American
manufactories and ruin at once Loin our
manufacturers and our farmers. Pitts
burg Gazette.
Save the Youth.
BY REV. E. 11. SAXFORD.
Alcohol is a demon whose clutch is
seldom relaxed after it has once gained a
firm hold of its victim. Those who have
undertaken the work know how hard it
to reclaim the confirmed drunkard.
Our hope is in savi ng the young and call
in" back those who are just crossing the
threshold of the dram-shop. If the boys
and girls of this generation are educated
to love the cause 01 temperance aud naie
the intoxicating cup, the future will bo
redeemed from the curse that is now des
olating so many hearts and homos.
How lari:e a portiou ol tnoae wuo to
day are crying out in their agony, "Who
shall deliver us from the body of this
death ?" would never have fallen if they
had been cduated right in early life.
The time for instruction is belorc op
portunity has been given for the forma-
f -i i...v.:.. tu. r
tlOU 01 evil UUUIia. Xl'.KS UUJIIC331UU Ul
youth are stamped the deepest.
Ualner ine cnunrcn iu, 001 oniy iron)
Christian homes, but also from the by
ways and hedges.
Paiut the character of the destroyer.
Arouse their enthusiasm and let them
feel that they ore iu the ranks of the
army that is battling against intemper
ance. One of tho most successful or
ganizations in our parish is "The Band
of Hope" started by u few Chilian wo
men. It has enrolled pearly all of the
youth of the community.
They hold their meetings on the first
Monday evening of every month. With
their temperance dialogues, and speeches,
and a pat-cr made up of the contributions
of the members, they have a pleasaut
time, and they are proud to be spokcu of
as temperance boys and girls.
While wc are out forgetful of the poor
victims of appetite, and believe in work
ing hard to shut up every dram shop with
the biw there is no place where hope
shines iuto our heart so brightly a.s i:i thi
gathering
where we meet lbs children.
Faahionablo 'Woman's Prayer.,
Strengthen mi husband, and may hia
faith and Liz money ho! J oa to the lat.
Draw the lamp's wool of unsu?picious
twi-light over hiz eyes, that rai flirtations
may look to him like victorya, and that
mi bills may strengthen hiz pride in me.
Bless, O Fortuue, mi kriiaps. rata aud
frizzles, and let this gbry shiao on tut
paint aud powder.
When i walk out before the ease of
vulgar
man,
, regulate
rai nij jle, aud add
grace
to mi
hen 1 bor raisoit m worship, sr&nt
that I may do it Trith ravishing elejaocey
and preserve unto the last the lily-whita
of mi Mesh aod the taper of taj 2agers.
Destrroy min enemies with tho gaul
ov jealousy, and eat thou up with tho
teeth ov envy all thoaa who gtaa it Kit
style.
Save me from wrinkles, aBd foster mi
plumpness.
Fill mi both eyes, O Fortna ! with tho
plaintive pizon of iufnuaahoa, that i may
lay out mi victim, the man, as knump ad
images graven.
Let the lily and the rose strive together
on mi cheek, and may mi ucik swim like
a goose on the buszuui of krystal waters.
Enable me, Oh, Fortune ! to wear shoes
still a little smaller, and save me from all
korns and bunyons.
Bless Fanny, mi lap kog, and rain down
bezoms of destrucshun upou those who
would hurt a hair of Hector, mi kitteo.
Smile, oh Eortuns ! most sweetly upon
Dick, mi kanary, and watch OTer, with
the fondness of a mother, mi two lily
white mice with red eyes.
Enable the poor to shirk for themselves,
and save me from all missionary beggars.
. Shed the light of thi countenance oa
mi kammel's hair shawl ; countenance oa
mi point laoeand mi ncciace of diamonds,
aud kpee the moths out or mi a&ble, I
besceth thee, Oh, Fortune !
Love and Selfishness.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Pink and
White Tyranny, this truthfully portrays
the love of a very large class of people;
Many women suppose they love their
husbands, when unfortunately, they have
not the beginning of an idea what love is.
Let rse explain it to you, my dear lady.
Loving to be admirod by a man, loving to
be petted by hiai, loving to be caressed
by him, and loving to be praised by him,
is not loving a man. All theso may be
when a woman has no power of loving at
all they may all be simple when she
loves herself, and loves to be flattered,
praised, caressed snd coaxed ; as a cat
likes to be coaxed, and struked, and fed
with cream and have a warm corner.
But all this is net all love. It may
exist to be sure, wha there is love, it gen
erally does. But it may also exist where
thero is no love. Love, ray dear ladies,
if self sacrifice ; it is a life out self and in
another. Its very essence is tho prefer
ring of the comfort, the ease, he wishes
of another to one's own, for the love wo
bear them. Love is giving, and net re
ceiving. Love is not a sheet of blotting
paper or a sponge, sucking in everything
to itself ; it is an out springing fountaiu
giving from itself. Love's motto has been
dropped in this world as a chance gem of
price by the loveliest, tho fairest, tho
strongest of lovers that ever trod this mor
al earth, of whora it is recorded that Ha
said : "It is more blessed to give than to
receive." Now in love, there are ten ro-
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ccivers to one givor. inure are ten per
sons in this world who like to be loved,
and love, where tcere is one knows how
to love.
What Great Hen Have been Fond Of.
Who would hnve imagined that the
grave, philosophic Socrates, during his
hours of leisure, took pleasure in dano
iug? Yet it was so. Many otherwise
men besidos havo taken preat delight in
music. Epaminondas used to take pleas
ure in singing at village festivals. Tho
cruel Nero fiddled while Home wns burn-
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at least, he played the harr, for
there were not, as yet, fiddles in thoso
days. Luther delighted in playing ths
flute, and the used to soothe his excited
feelings. Frederick II. of Probsts allay
ed the most violent agonies of mind with
the same instrument. An hour's p'aying
generally sufSccd to reduce him to per
fect tranquility. Milton delighted in
playing the organ, aud composed several
fine psalm taucs, which are to this day
sung in cur churchps. Benthin was pas
sionately load of music, and played tho
organ ; there was scarcely room in his
house without a piano. GaiEsboarcugh,
tho painter, was a cpital performer on the
violin. Byron s great delight was m
flowers; aud while in Italy he purchased
a Iresh bouquet every day. Byron was
also fond of animals ; in his youth he
made a friend of a boir. Goeths Tsrely
passed a day without bringing out from
the chimney corner a live snake, which
he kept there, and caressed it like & bos
om fiiend. Tiberius, a Roman Emperor,
also made an intimate companion of per
pent. Augustus was exceedingly food ot
a parrot, but still more so of a quiil, the
loss of which made him as si rs if he
had lost a battle.
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